{"id":248875,"date":"2025-10-24T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/248875\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T15:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T15:45:08","slug":"shots-fired-after-vehicle-backs-into-us-coast-guard-base-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/248875\/","title":{"rendered":"Shots fired after vehicle backs into US Coast Guard base in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Law enforcement officers fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area that had earlier been the site of protests against federal immigration agents, and hours after President Donald Trump called off a planned surge<\/a> of federal agents into San Francisco to quell crime.<\/p>\n

The shots were fired about 10 p.m. Thursday at the base in Alameda<\/a>, the Coast Guard posted on X. The vehicle drove away and no Coast Guard personnel were hurt, the statement said.<\/p>\n

Video from the scene showed what appeared to be a U-Haul truck trying to back into the base.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoast Guard personnel issued multiple verbal commands to stop the vehicle, the driver failed to comply and proceeded to put the vehicle in reverse,\u201d the statement said. \u201cWhen the vehicle\u2019s actions posed a direct threat to the safety of Coast Guard and security personnel, law enforcement officers discharged several rounds of live fire.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Coast Guard said the FBI was investigating. The FBI and U-Haul did not immediately respond to emails seeking further information.<\/p>\n

Earlier Thursday, protesters had assembled at the island, with many singing hymns and carrying signs saying, \u201cProtect our neighbors\u201d and \u201cNo ICE or troops in the Bay,\u201d a reference to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the National Guard.<\/p>\n

Trump had been threatening<\/a> to send the National Guard to San Francisco, a move Mayor Daniel Lurie and Gov. Gavin Newsom said was unnecessary because crime is on the decline. Separately, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents began arriving at the Coast Guard base in the region earlier Thursday for a possible ramp up of immigration enforcement, a move that drew several hundred protesters.<\/p>\n

Trump said he backed off<\/a> after speaking to the mayor and several prominent business leaders who said they\u2019re working hard to clean up the city.<\/p>\n

That decision was in contrast to others made by Trump to send the military<\/a> into Democratic-run cities over fierce resistance from mayors and governors.<\/p>\n

The deployment of National Guard troops<\/a> on the streets of Washington faced challenges in two courts on Friday \u2014 one in the nation\u2019s capital and another in West Virginia \u2014 while across the country a judge in Portland, Oregon, was considering whether to let Trump deploy troops there. Deployment remains blocked in the Chicago area.<\/p>\n

Coast Guard Island is a 67-acre (27-hectare) human-made island formed in 1913 in the Oakland Estuary between Oakland and Alameda. It is federally owned, does not allow visits from the general public without an escort or specific government identification, and it has been home to the current base, Base Alameda, since 2012, according to a Coast Guard document from 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Base Alameda provides a variety of services for Coast Guard activities throughout the West Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Law enforcement officers fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,2356,12,2013,793,7922,790,1576,3,111,3775,5284,4382,33720,28387,6148,57672,795,21,19,22,20,25,24,7943],"class_list":["post-248875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-california","tag-donald-trump","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-general-news","tag-gun-violence","tag-immigration","tag-military-and-defense","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-protests-and-demonstrations","tag-san-francisco","tag-shootings","tag-u-s-coast-guard","tag-u-s-federal-bureau-of-investigation","tag-u-s-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-u-s-national-guard","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-west-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}